Quotes About Legacy

Playing the Mahatma at the start of my career has made a difference in my life as I had read a lot about him at that point of time. I still read a lot on him. His opinion about life and politics has affected a lot of persons, including me.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.

I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.

Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.

I might not be very approachable because through my whole life, from when I was eight years old, I had people camping behind my goal and hearing the whispers, 'It's Peter Schmeichel's son.'

I started it all, I created the role of Peter Parker.

I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.